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PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BIG RUSSIAN CRUISER BAYAN WITH SEVEN HUNDRED MEN IS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN SUNK BY A FLOATING TORPEDO VOL. III. NO. 13. Officials' Are Skeptical and Await Further ... Confirmation. LONDONMAKES INQUIRIES Berliil Correspondent Says - Skorrl Was Not the Vessel That -Was lost in Port Arthur's "' Outer? Harbor. ; (Journal Special Berries.) ' : ' Berlin, March 14. On of ths roost startling reports . of the entire war In the far east was received today by the Bchlessts.Hezeltung, a newspaper which, as a rule, la conservative and reliable. It la to the effect that It waa ndt the Russian torpedo boat destroyer Skorrl which waa blown up by a floating tor pedo In the entrance to Port Arthur harbor-on the evening of March 16, but the armored cruiser Sayan Instead. - The dispatch adds that almost the en tire crew of the Bayan, numbering 709 men. went to the bottom In the awful wreck. The dispatch created a stirrers, as ' the correspondent sending It Is a man who has on several occasions distin guished himself "by the authentio news ' which he has gained exclusively. in . i I i aa i - Z.01TDOH TBXES TO COHTIKM, Hears Bayan Beport and Doubts Relia bility foreign Office Makes Inquiries. '? (Journal Special Sorvlee.) London, March : 24. Excitement was . caused here today by a report from Ber lin thafth Russian cruiser Bayan had ; been sunk with nearly 700 men aboard. Both the Japanese and Russian repre- , the disaster to Russian arms. , The Rua elan officials say the story la not to be . accepted, but also deny knowledge that , the 8korrV the torpedo boat destroyer, was sunk. , " The Japanese officials are non-communicative, but point to the fact that constant recurring reports from so many different sources of another war vessel , of the Russian squadron' having been sunk, would Indicate the possibility of ' the Bayan's having gone down. ' The foreign office has . addressed a message of Inquiry to Its agents. ckxtoo hears batajt. Bends Out Seport that Skorrl Xa Unin jured, bat Cruiser Was Sunk. " ' (Journal Special Service.) Chefoo, March 24.' It Is reported here that it was not the Russian torpedo. boat destroyer enorri that waa blown up, but the protected cruiser Bayan, and that nearly all her crew of 700 waa lost SCUTES XV SXBEBXa, ; Amerlean Traveler Says Troops ltat Have Suffered Intensely. (Special Dispatch to Toe Journal) San Franclaco, March 24. Leon ) Mooser, a young American traveler, who is at present at Chee Foo, wrltea from that place to his parents in this city ; as follows: -. "I left Moscow on January 22 and the suspicious Russians of that city took me for a spy. I bad no difficulty, how- k01VI 111 fllVlUg 111 lUVIIlllJ. A IVtl for Port Arthur on the trans-Siberian railway.; On the train with me was the ' general commanding, all -the Russian troops In Manchuria, a colonel, an ad v miral and many petty officers, on their ; way to Port Arthur, where trouble was ' ' expected. During the- trip oh the train ' the commanding officer was closeted j most of the time with his officers, and (Continued on Page Two.) GRIM TALE (Copyright, 1904. by W. B. Hearst.) New, York, March 14. The first au- ' thentio information of Leon Idas Hub- ' bard, Jr., magaslne writer and assistant ' editor of Outing, who starved to death In the interior of Labrador, was received here today through Dillon Wallace, Hubbard's sole whits companion, who has reached Quebec from Cartwrlght, Labrador. The letter Says: - "We found our food supply was ex- hauated early in August We suffered terrible tortures from exposure and cold, and the horns and skin of a caribou were made to serve aa food at a miserable Camp for a week. Wa made our way with difficulty down a small stream in a canoe until Hubbard could go no ' farther." 'vv-' "'.-..v-" ' " ,'. ; ' - , , The letter, after giving details, says: "George, the native, and I desired to leave Hubbard at, a camp and hurry : forward for help. We had grown very close to each other in the past summer and during our severe hardships, and endeavored always to lighten each oth- ' er's load, and I felt toward him like a brother. ",, "I tried to turn to him several times . to say goodby, but felt each time that I myself was breaking down, and for a long time sat with my back to him. Then George-said we'must. start. I turned to say to him what I felt was my last farewell, and- In spite of my - efforts broke down and sobbed , like a child. , , Tells of Parting. "His entry In his diary "will tell you 'of our parting, and I duote: 14 "October 18. '.1601 Alone In camp, . Junction of Neacaupee and soma other stream. For two days past ws have DELUGE CAUSES A , MINING CITY TO SINK - (Journal Special Service.) - ' ' Madrid, March 24. Persistent . rains that have been failing In a disastrous deluge over the prov- 4 Ince of Almerla, softened the earth to such an extent that to- - day a considerable portion of the city of Cuevas de Vera sank with e email warning into the ancient e .workings . of the lead mines, ;, a) whose . tunnels stretched in a labyrinth beneath the city. 'Whole rows of houses were.! carried down Into the abyss, many of the occupants having no e time for flight. Thirty-two s casualties, are reported, and the death list may be Increased. The , city, with Its 25,000 Inhabitants, has been panic stricken In the 4 fear of the catastrophe spreading 4 to greater magnitude, and many Inhabitants are fleeing Into the ' aurroundlng hills with their household effects. The rain con- tlnues falling heavily. . CUTS OFF ITS CRAFT Congress Refuses Sub sidy for the Oceanic Steamships- . ' (Waahlnstoa Sareaa of The Journal.) Washington, . D. C . March 24. In considering the postofflce appropriation In the house today, Robinson (Dem.)of Indiana, attacked the subsidy of $45,000 recommended in the bill for the Oceania Steamship company for transporting the mails from San Franclaco to Ta hiti. ' 'The appropriation has heretofore been sneaked through congress In a cowardly manner," declared the speaker, "and it la time that it was shown up so that people may understand what kind of a graft la being carried on in thia tneaaure." ' ,J Several Republican members ' arose, but the speaker quieting his tone con tinued in a' more orthodox manner, showing why he believed the appropria tion uncalled for. His speech waa suffi cient to cause the motion, which he later made, striking out the. subsidy, to be carried. . Committee Beports. The house committee on merchant ma rine authorised a favorable report on the Frye bill, extending' the coastwise trade laws to the Philippines, but ex empting the lnterlsland trade of the archipelago. The house committee on military af faire today authorised a favorable re port on the resolution selecting the fol lowing men for the board of managers for the Rational Soldiers' home: Mar tin MacMahon of New York, J. M. Hol ley of Wisconsin, William Warner of Missouri. W. R. Shatter of California, H. E. Palmer of Nebraska and Franklin Murphy of New Jersey. ,', Members of congress received In their mall today cards printed on both aides, purporting to ahow the record of Brls tow in the' guise of a Franklin county, Kansas, directory.. He names himself and four relatives on the payroll, and aggregates a salary of the sum of $$, 700. Bristow's partner,,. Allen, who Is a candidate for congress, has a number of snaps. The card was circulated with great glee. OF DEATH traveled down our old trail with light packs. We left a bit of wet flour about 11 miles below here, 12 miles below that about a pound of milk powder, four miles below that about four pounds of lard. We counted on all these to help us out hvan effort to reach the head of Grand lake, where we hoped to find a trappers' camp. On Thursday I fasted. Friday and Saturday was the same. 'VI aaw it waa hopeleaa for me to go further with the boys, so we consulted last night and decided that they should take merely half a blanket each, cups, etc., and go on. They will try to reaoh the flour tomorrow. - Then Wallace will bring a little and come back to me. George will- go on to Grand lake, if he can, and send or lead help to us. I want to say right here that they are two of the very best, bravest and grandest men I ever knew. If I dle.lt will not be because they did not put forth their beat efforts. , Our past weeks have been trying ones.- I have not written my diary- because I am very weak. . . ::' .'pKaks Sroth of ss.:;j' ; V." "'Yesterday at the old camp ws found an end we had cut from a flour bag. It had bit of flour sticking to it. Wt boiled it with our old caribou bones and It thickened the broth a little. We also found a can of mustard, we had thrown away. . I sat and held it in. my hand a long' time, thinking how it came from home. Then I took a bite of It, and it waa very good. We mixed aome in ou bone soup and It seemed to stimulate us. We had a bit of caribou skin In that same soup. It swelled up thick and was very good. Last night I fell asleep while the boys were reading to m :::::;i.x;'::.:;:::5.:(:qW This picture, from a photograph recently received-here, shows the Russians building a railroad across the ice on; Lake BaikaL "-This gap in the trans-Siberian road has given the Russian authorities much worry. PASSES TO Sir Edward Arnold. Author of the Light of Asia, Is Dead. (Journal Special Berriee.) London. March 24. Sir Edwin Arnold, the well-known author and Journalist, who . has been seriously ill for . some days, died this morning. His demise was not unexpected, as be has for several days been in a critical condition. ' Sir Edwin Arnold was born at Q rave send in 1832, and graduated with high honors from Oxford in 1S5S. He en tered educational work and for many years was pne of the leading of mod ern Instructors and teachers. He, be came principal of the government -college at Bombay In 1856, but a few years later gained fame as an editorial writer on the staff of - the Dally Telegraph, with which he was connected up tot the time of his illness. He was a most versatile writer, and his books, "Light of, Asia" 'and', "Light of the World," made , him famous .' In literature. , He wrote books on .travel,: recreation and aporta with seemingly .'equal fluency, and waa personally an ardent sports man. '.':'.' ,: - , '".' to nxmst orx. The rjlver ateamer 'America la being converted Int6 an olfburner. THE LIGHT IN LABRAD0RIAN WILDS IS TOLD Dillon Wallace Unfortunate .Writer's Sole ; White Companion, Sends Story of Uncomplaining Fight Against Starvation and Distress, ,-ljrhrough Which Gleam Golden Threads of Loyalty-and Love, ' me. . This morning I was very, very sleepy. ' v. -' "'After the boys left I found' they had left me tea, caribou bones and an other, end of a flour saek ..found here, and some yeast cakes. I drank a cup of strong tea and some bone broth. 1 ate also aome really delicloua rawhide boiled with bones, and it made me stronger strong enough to write this. The boys have only tea and half a pound of pea meal. Our parting waa most affecting. ; I did not feel ao bad. George said; ."Lord help ua. Hubbard! With His help I'll save you if I can get out". Then he cried; so did Wallace. Wallace stooped and kissed my cheek with his poor, sunken,, bearded lips sev eral times. t kissed ' his. ' George did the same, and I kissed his cheek. - Then they went away. God" bless and help them! . . , " 'My tent fa pitched in open-tent style tn front of a rock. The rock reflects the fire, but now it la going out because of the rain., I shall let Jt gb and close the tent till the rain la over, thus keeptng out the wind and saving my wood. To nlghf or - tomorrow afternoon, if the "' mhM VvJ i L LONDON MURDERER ESCAPES BY DEATH '"', - "' ' - ,.'-.' r Pursued by Officers After Supposed Discovery of Many Crimes Cuts His Throat and Dies : : ; in the, Street ' (Journal Special Service.) London, March 24. All London is to day talking and excited over what ap pears to be the discovery of another aeries of murders rivaling the "Jack the Ripper" crimes. The day baa de veloped into the finding-of two bodies, the attempted arrest and suicide of a suspect and officers expect to find the bodies of several other persons who are missing.- . '-,. ".. " . The police at Kensllrlse, who have for many months been-receiving reports of Inexplicable disappearances, finally fas tened suspicion i upon a man named Croesman. who lodged in an obscure boarding-house and who waa a myste rious personage. -This morning in force they searched the boarding-house and discovered a trunk containing the body of a woman and child who disappeared two months ago. - - - ? , f . At first the officers passed the. trunk, but on later examination it was found DELUGE CONTINUES , . i OYER CUDDLE COAST (Apeeial Dlapatrh to The Journal.) ; ' -San Francisco, .March 24. A deluge of rain .fell here last. night, and, early this morning. It came In showers be tween which the sun shone brightly. 4 A weather will Improve so I can build a fire, 1 will eat the rest of my moccasins and a pair of cowhide mittens. They ought to help some. 1 am not suffering. The acute pangs of hunger have given way to. indifference., I am sleepy. I think death from starvation is not so bad, but let no one suppose I expect it I am prepared, that Is all. I think the boys will be able, with the Lord's help, to save me.' " ; . Wallace Continues Story. Wallace then continues: "On the morning of October 18. when George and I left camp, a drizzling . cold rain was falling. 1 This- soon changed to a steady downpour, driving in sheets into our faces, and progress was difficult At dunk we made our fire, pulling together dead branches - for that purpose. That night in camp we, boiled a partridge I had killed, and ate U, with the entrails, and r drank the - broth. ' At -dusk we reached the flour bag. It contained only some lumps of moldy,, green stuff that had once' been.' flour.r rt Next morning George ate tfle greater part of this to help him in his long journey to Grand lake, and after that I ate what clung that the bodies had been dismembered, placed in the bottom and the whole cov ered with a thick layer of cement. iAn attempt was made to arrest Cross man., who had been concealed in the house. He dashed his way through tlfa crowd, , gained the street and fled,, pur sued by a crowd that increased to the size of a small army. Seeing that the offlcera weye gaining, and escape Impossible, Crossman drew a razor as he ran and cut his throat so deeply aa to almost decapitate himself. He died at the officers' feet. . The body was carried to the morgue and the officers returned to- the boarding house where this afternoon they started digging In the garden In the belief that many other bodies will be found to have been buried there. The motive for the numerous .crimes Is. supposed to have been petty robbery, as none of the vic tims were In 'more 'than well-to-do cir cumstances. ., , , .... , i storm blew in from the - southeast and brought a dtwnpour more like tropical squalls than the usual .weatner. -n Heavy rains fell in the valleys and the levee at Bouldln Island in the San Joaquin gave way, flooding the most ex tensive 'asparagus garden -In the world. The lose waa very heavy. ' The city of Sacramento Is very uneasy, though the levees are ' holding ' well thus far. ' If broke they would cause much loss of life and property. . , , to the bog, and kept a few lumps of the stuff. We then parted. "The snow' began falling thick and fast - I was very weak and nearly blind from the smoke of our campflre when I began ray return march toward Hubbard and1 his camp. Before noon the snow was half way .up to my knees. Spruce and fir tree branches were bending low with their weight of snow. The river was partially frozen, and the whole sur face of the country was changed. . I made slow progress, due to the snow and my extreme weakness, and that night I made a fire ' hear the place where' we forded the. si-ver.. The- enow storm never ceased night and day until the evening of October 19. ' "The next -dny ' I forded the 'river, breaking the.th.ln Ice on the edge until I reached Ice thick enough to' bear me and allow me to climb out trf the water nto it Next. day I. was .stlU far from Hubbard's camp when nlghjr came, and the third -day I walked the greater part of the night . The. river was now frozen. Snow had obliterated all the. landmarks, and after'walking up and down several times where X thought the camp must be COLOR LIE 1 CHURCH Old Issue May Be Raised In Coming Methodist Conference. , ; "Should .a colored brother -be ele vated to a biahoprloT" - Condensed In a nutshell, the race question In this form will coma before the regular conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, which wlll.be held at Los Angeles, opening its quadrennial sessions May 4. . Portland members of thia-denomination will attend the conference in larga numbers. It, Is stated that, owing to the large vote given Bev. J. W. E. Bowen rt Chicago four years ago, there Is every . probability that , the . colored clergymen attending the conference will make renewed effort in their long struggle . to have one of their race ad vanced -to- the rank 'of bishop. - In ; fact, some- delegates to the con ference state that, owlngvto the . steady growth jn numbers of the colored clergy men, the vote in favor of making a col ored brother bishop may be much larger this year than ever. ' Several Portland clergymen of the Methodist " Episcopal faith were Inter viewed on this question,- and some con sented to express themselves for pub lication. Others talked freely - on the subject but would not be quoted. All (Continued, on Page. Two.) IN HUBBARD'S DIARY I was at length, compelled to give up the search and headed toward Grand lake. My Intellect was -benumbed through weakness and I walked in halt a dream. Sometimes I imagined -myself asleep and dreaming, and felt that all I had done and was enduring was Just a dream and that I would soon awake. Becomes mighty la Mind. -. "My matches were , nearly gone and wood was hard to get. .1 made but one fire each day at night. - Then I would Sit down in the "snow by my little blaze, and I would hea,c a woman'e voice quite plainly at my side, telling me to break some boughs for1 a bed and fix myself as comfortably as I could and lie down. Then with an effort I would break a few boughs and ait down, and she would say to me sometimes, when I had not broken enough boughs for a good bed: 'Hadn't you better break a few more? You will rest better.' ; ;;'-. "One morning I tried to get some more sticks, but fell in the snow. I could not walk. I was overcome with a de Sire for sleep and sat dozing by a stump, and it would have been my last sleep. I am confident that would have been my last bivouac, when I heard some one shout very near me, and almost Imme diately four dark-faced men on snow shoes, with : big packs on their backs, came over the bank. ' I was too much dazed for a moment to realise that they were men. "I had not seen a human being other than Hubbard and George since July IS, and in my wanderings had come to think I was. the only person left in the world. Then I remembered that George was to try to summon Donald Blake from TO STAY li PORTLAND 0. R. & N. Headquarters Will Not Go to Salt lake City.- MOHLER TO OMAHA Calvin Is Coming to Replace MohTef : io Charge; of the 0 R. & N. Consolidation with Southern Pacific In- Doubt According to official Information re celced at the headquarters of the O. B. & N. this afternoon, the following "will be the changes in the heads of the Har rtman lines: -.'. A, I. Mohler is to replace president, to be vice-president and general manager of the Union Pacific, with headquarters in Omaha. He is preparing, to move at onoe. . , E. E. Calvin Is general manager of the) O.. R. & N., with headquarters in, Port land. He will be removed to ,thls city; from. Bait Lake. .. S.' f.-r- W. H. Bancroft is to be vice-president and ' general manager Of the. Oregon Short Line, with headquarters in Bait Lake City. ' The reported acquisition of the Ore gon Short Line of that portion of tha Central Pacific road between Reno and Ogden and the section of the Union Pa cific between Green Biver and Ogden is denied from official sources. The ; changes which were confirmed will be effected at once, as soon as a few details, can be arranged by Trans portation Director Kruttschnltt and Traffic Director J. C. Stubbs, who will reach the city tonight. - ''. . The O. R. & N. headquarters wilt be) retained In Portland, whatever changes may be made in the constitution of the) several Harriman lines. This assur ance was given representatives of the chamber of commerce this morning who sought from O. R. & N. officials a state ment concerning the destiny of the head quarters, which Salt Lake rumor said was to be moved to the Mormon town. ; From presumably reliable -sources the report is confirmed thai President Mohler of the Oregon Railway & Navigation company la to go to Omaha to take tha position left vacant by the resignation of President Burt; that in Mr. Mohier's place E. E. Calvin, general manager of the Oregon Short Line at Salt Lake, wilt be appointed as general manager of the O. R, & N.. the office of president and vice-president being left open. Whether the Oregon, lines of - the O. R. & N. and the Southern Pacific are to be united under the management of Mr. Calvin Is a moot question. Inti mates of Mr. Calvin who nave worked with him tn. other years, say that the union of Oregon lines and tne removal of the O. R. It N.- headquarters to Salt Lake City are two things that were spoken of by Mr. Calvin three years ago, which he then stated were to come In the future. - Should the Oregon lines be united, the O. B. A N. headquarters would probably be, taken to Utah, but the ' assurance of th road's officials that such a move is not contemplated is regarded aa for the time disposing of the Oregon consolidation, with Mr. Cal- (Continued on Page Two.) , Grand lake. I knew Donald and rec ognised Ws voice as one of them, X spoke his name, 'Donald Blake,' and he took my hand in his and my senses re turned with the touch of human flesh. In a moment they had a roaring fire and some hot tea, and gave me a slice of bread and butter. 1 ate it, and it made me sick. : My rescuers were Allen Candy, a halfbrecd Indian, and Donuld Blake. Gilbert Blake and Puncan Mao lane, a halfbreed Eskimo. All are trap pers. w , ,. .. , Indian Catches Game. ': . "George got through to them by catch ing game to help him exist. ; He was nearly drowned once by being wrecked on a raft 1 sent Allen Gundy and Don ald Blake right on to look for Hubbard. They found, him in a sleeping posture, dead, and he had evidently gone to sleep after making the entry quoted above on the 18th, nnd never woke up. Georxe and I reached the' Northwest river on November . Mr. Mackenzie, the man ager, took me home and called his man from the company houxe to cut my hair and shave me. I had not had a haircut since leaving New York, or a slmve since ' July 15. ; He prepared a tub of water for a warm bath, a suit of nUM clothes and a good, soft bed, and mutiei a fire in my room. . ' ' "He rubbed my lg and put me bed after supper. HU little hi)-ki- r cried over our troubles, and rti'l every thing she could for me. They lviv been very kind to me, and I am rrmMintf my home with them here, 0orft u t another man's house, and is arowum tut. It Is due to George's almost n.ij.orr. ,. , efforts after lenvlng ma for hi ) i,-,,, j to Grand luke that I owe my IJ ."